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Preaching Christ in a postmodern culture / K.A. Beville.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.Description: 1 online resource (174 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781443821872
  • 144382187X
  • 9781443821513
  • 1443821519
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Preaching Christ in a Postmodern Culture.DDC classification:
  • 251
LOC classification:
  • BV4211.3 .B48 2010
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Preface -- The shift from contextualization to syncretism in the western Christian church -- Understanding postmodernism : issues pertaining to the feasibility of the homiletic task in the contemporary epistemological context -- Developing an approach to preaching which is cognizant of postmodern culture -- Inductive and deductive modes of preaching.
Summary: Starting with some observations relating to shifts in ecclesiology and identifying them as a move beyond contextualization to syncretism this work goes on to assess the feasibility of preaching in a postmodern culture which rejects both the idea of absolute truth and authority used as power. It traces the historical and philosophical development of postmodernism. The Enlightenment project is deemed to have failed and Christianity is perceived as an oppressive metanarrative. In a world that is ...
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)532126

Preface -- The shift from contextualization to syncretism in the western Christian church -- Understanding postmodernism : issues pertaining to the feasibility of the homiletic task in the contemporary epistemological context -- Developing an approach to preaching which is cognizant of postmodern culture -- Inductive and deductive modes of preaching.

Starting with some observations relating to shifts in ecclesiology and identifying them as a move beyond contextualization to syncretism this work goes on to assess the feasibility of preaching in a postmodern culture which rejects both the idea of absolute truth and authority used as power. It traces the historical and philosophical development of postmodernism. The Enlightenment project is deemed to have failed and Christianity is perceived as an oppressive metanarrative. In a world that is ...

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Includes bibliographical references and index.